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GEORG BIRKMANN, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

BEDSTEAD.

tiEhlCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,920, dated March 16, 1886.

Application filed May 14, 1885. Serial No. 165,419.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEoRG BIRKMANN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bedsteads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in bedsteads made of pipes of iron or other suitable metal, whereby the same can be manufactured cheaply and shipped with great convenience and in a compact state.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 rep resents a side elevation, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 8 an end elevation, of my improved bedstead.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the upright supporting-posts of my improved bedstead, which are made of three pieces, an in termediate double-socket piece, A, and two tubular sections, a a, made of gas-pipe, which are screwed into the upper and lower ends of the socket-piece A". The lower sections, a, are provided with casters a.

Each double socket, A, is provided with a laterally-extending socket, b, and with L- shaped side sockets, b b, which sockets are made integral therewith.

The lateral sockets I) I) of the posts A are for supporting the transverse end pieces of the bed-bottom B, while the sockets b I) serve, respectively, for supporting the longitudinal side pieces of the bed-bottom and the side rails, G O, of the bedstead.

The side pieces, d d, of the bed-bottom B are made of two pieces of gas-pipe, which are connected at the center by T- oints d, that are connected by short vertical pipes d by T-j oints d to the side rails, O.

The side pieces, d d, of the bottom 13 and of the side rails, C O, are secured to the L- shaped sockets b b by pins 6 e, which are at- (No model.)

tached to bent joints 6' e at the ends of the side pieces and rails, as shown clearlyin Fig. l.

The longitudinal side pieces and transverse end pieces of the bed-bottom B are connected by interlacing metal bands f and by strong spiral springs f, which are attached to the ends of the bands and to the side and end pieces of the bedbottom, so as to produce an elastic bottom for the bedstead.

' The bed-posts A are connected at the upper ends by bent corner-pieces g and tubes g, which latter are coupled by central screwjoints, 9 9'.

The space between the posts A, transverse top pieces, and the end pieces of the bed-bot tom is closed by wirenetting or any other ornamental filling.

My improved bedstead can be packed in a small space, as all the parts may be readily unscrewed from each other. They may be readily put together, and form when connected a strong and reliable metallic bedstead.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a bedstead, the combination, with the corner-pieces A, each provided with a lateral socket, b, and also with two lateral L-shaped sockets, b, opening upwardly and at right angles to said socket b, end rails entering said sockets b, and legs for supporting said cornerpieces, of side rails each comprising two parallel rods, B and 0, connected near their centers by a rod, (1 and having at their ends downwardly-extending pins 6 for engaging said L-shaped sockets 12, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in pres ence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORG BIRKMANN.

Witnesses:

KARL KARI, SOL. N. ROSENBAUM. 

